Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, August 9, 1994 TAG: 9408100020
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: C3 EDITION: METRO
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Spencer broke his right shoulder when he crashed Saturday during the Brickyard 400.
Kendall, 27, has won five IMSA championships and an SCCA title. His Winston Cup experience includes the 1989 Bud at The Glen.
``Tommy is a bona fide road racer,'' said Mike Hill, Spencer's crew chief. ``He's the first person that came to mind when we found out Jimmy wasn't going to be 100 percent at Watkins Glen.''
Qualifying for Sunday's race at Watkins Glen, N.Y., begins Friday.
\ Steve Cauthen may be a Hall of Fame jockey, winner of the Triple Crown, one of the greatest athletes of his time, and a husband and father. But he's still ``The Kid.''
``Some things stick. I guess that was one of them,'' Cauthen said Monday in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., after becoming the youngest person ever inducted into the National Racing Hall of Fame.
Cauthen joined trainer Jimmy Croll and horses Ta Wee, Eight Thirty, Flatterer and Arts and Letters as the Hall's newest inductees.
Cauthen, now 34, wasn't even old enough to vote when he burst onto the racing scene in 1977, winning 487 races and setting an Amercian jockey record with more than $6 million in earnings.
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